Moss family not showing up correctly in my state

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Platform: Website

Browser, if a website issue: Norton Private Browser

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6&taxon_id=55324
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6&taxon_id=126107

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Description of problem: I was uploading a batch of observations and went to search for some mosses in my state (Alaska) in the family Leucodontaceae. The only three results are of a species of moss not even in Leucodontaceae. When I search for that particular species in Alaska, I found that their are 242 observations, so this is making no sense to me.
When I search for Leucodontaceae from the entire world I found that several observations of another species in Antitrichia is included as well.
I’m not sure what kind of problem this is, but it’s weird.

Step 1: Search for Leucodontaceae in Alaska or world

Step 2: Go to species page to see that species not in that family are included in the search as well.

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looks like another case of index problems. there might have been a taxon change at some point that didn’t shift everything around completely or something like that.

i just updated one of the three observations, and it’s no longer listed under Leucodontaceae, and probably any update will update the indexes on the remaining two observations, too, although i’ve left those for now, in case iNat staff decide they want to look at them (which i don’t think they often do).

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There were 15 observations, and they should all be properly indexed now. Almost certainly caused by reindexing issues, as the observations appear to all be older than the age of the family the genus was moved to.